Black mayor. Black police chief. Woman governor. Democrats in control of basically everything. But vote blue no matter who. Fuck all that. Miss me with that bullshit.
I can't even find a way to be snarky. Literally just pulling the ladder up with them. The oppressed transformed into tokens, doing the oppressors bidding.
Blatant, in our face misleadership. People got real uncomfy with calling a minstrel a minstrel; and thus did community coon out to the lanyard complex, to Black Capitalism, to feigned 'excellence'. Death to Amerika, worse to everyone invested in propping it up.
We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.
I'll never forget the sight of the national guard in their armored cars backing up the pigs on my city's main street in 2020. Fucking stormtroopers facing us down and people think we don't live in a police state
A few minutes ago - Lawrence O'Donnell mentioned how in the 1960s "police officers gleefully beat protestors" and in comparison he was impressed by the the "professionalism" of the NYPD and - paraphrase - "how everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion... from the camera's perspective". Of course - tv news cameras where shooting people outside the buildings and nobody knows anything about what happened inside.
the pigs actively herded all journalists and legal observers away from the area before they breached. which is wild to do when 1) the kids inside are going to film the most harrowing shit regardless and 2) none of the media outlets will air any of that footage anyway.
Will never be voting for a mainstream democrat, or really any democrat, ever again. Good job, Joe! Killed your own campaign so hard it's making Hillary blush
Uhhhh actually china is genociding hongkong taiwan tibet. Tiananmen square uhhhh. Vote blue. Any vote for anyone else means 0 rights. Uhhhh china russia iran no rights terrorism authoritarian.
MSNBC - Lawrence O'Donnell moved on to Trump. Because of course he did. His base - the old folks who watch MSNBC as a religion - want the comforting embrace of Trump news. And I bet he does too.
He's using a combination of demonstrator streams, WKCR (campus radio, who has reporters on the ground), videos sent directly to him from demonstrators, CNN, and noteworthy videos on Twitter as they come out.
Find jt interesting they are sending in the pro crowds and all the sudden "protests turn violent" and need to arrest at the same time in are turning against their own people calling out Bibi's bullshit about the hostages and his corruption.
Definitely just coincidences.
All this is going to do is spread the protests beyond the colleges. Dems are shitting their pants that another Kent State or 1968 convention is going to happen. They know they can't spin the Genocide Joe thing.
I think my favorite narrative I've been hearing regarding these protests, and you heard this a lot in 2020 too, is that all these protestors willing to engage in property violence and physically clash with the police are actually outside agitators. And in this case they're outside agitators occupying a privately owned building, which the media is happy to compare to a private single family home. That's right, protestors occupying a private university building is exactly the same as them occupying your home, you braindead TV consumer you.
Sometimes the 'outside agitator' narrative has merit. I imagine we've all seen videos of obvious police plants trying to rile up people in order to get them arrested. Maybe some of you have witnessed such things in person. I vaguely remember reading that the guy who started the fire that burned down that Minneapolis Police station was actually a chud trying to make things worse. That sort of thing, I guess, really does happen. But it's also such a convenient narrative. "Oh, it wasn't concerned student activists and professors and ordinary people trying to stand against a genocide. It was wild-eyed barbarians, outsiders from outside, and thus all the police violence wielded against these people protesting a genocide was wholly justified."
That talking point was really funny in 2020. Mass protests happening in every major american city, where are the "outside" agitators coming from? Was it just a bunch of rural people coming to the cities to start shit?
A WKCR reporter says that there is an unconscious student protester on the ground in front of Hamilton Hall. [...] WKCR also reports that NYPD is using tear gas.
WKCR reporters say that everything they're hearing from fellow students is that the people being arrested and filling NYPD buses are students, not outsiders
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A minor detail but weirdly touched at how the student reporters of WKCR keep apologizing whenever they interrupt each other, like this is such a chaotic scene and they're so professional
Over 100 protesters were arrested Tuesday at Columbia University and City College of New York, according to a law enforcement official. Most of the arrests were made at Columbia, the official said.